Improving global monitoring of vaccine safety: A survey of national centres participating in the WHO Programme for International Drug Monitoring

Drug Safety

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 389-398

  Letourneau, Megan ^a   Wells, George ^a   Walop, Wikke ^a,b   Duclos, Philippe ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b PUBLIC HEALTH AGENCY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^c WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Adverse reaction monitoring; Pharmacovigilance; Vaccines, general

Indexed keywords

VACCINE;

ARTICLE; CONSULTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MONITORING; DRUG POTENCY; DRUG PROGRAM; DRUG QUALITY; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG SURVEILLANCE PROGRAM; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

DATA COLLECTION; DATABASES, FACTUAL; IMMUNIZATION; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; INTERNET; PRODUCT SURVEILLANCE, POSTMARKETING; QUESTIONNAIRES; SAFETY; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC; VACCINES; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 42449152772     PISSN: 01145916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2165/00002018-200831050-00003     Document Type: Article

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